சந்தோசமா சுத்துறான். Swipes open the iPad to invoke her new fatality “A picture of

our pappu tagged in our thangavigraham’s album ‘New beginning with a beautiful

dream'”.

// Maami: Seeing the plight of this failed interracial marriage, I took it upon myself to not to let this happen to our Senbhagam’s son. We found a vbarbie of a girl from my side (a relative) and they’re living happily having honeymoon in Miami, Hawaii and such. Swipes open the iPad to invoke her fatality “A picture of our pappu tagged in our barbie’s album ‘New beginning with a wonderful dream'””//.

Thus the maami is set upon in her path of destruction. Its pappu here, paapu there but

I watched the short video by Vogue, starred by Deepika Padukone and directed by Homi Adajania. I so wanted to do a’ Whatsup Homie’ upon learning his existence (I don’t Bollywood). Alright. I will just put my takeaways and then something else.Takeaway:
* Brilliant Lighting and Camera: Wow.. All the environs including fabricated lighting, usage of monochromatic colors and with the pretty women. Wow. Powerful narration too. Kudos to the homie.

* Nimrat Rao! Whoa dude.. that chick! If you’ve watched Homeland, I bet you didn’t take your eyes off of this gorgeous, commanding and attractively vicious and my version of Femme Fatale. My senses went on a berserk that I had to find her on instagram @nimratofficial to give myself a shot of Nimrat Rao every time I go there. If you folks think Deepika Padukone is attractive that’s all chill by me. But this is what I have to think of her :P( Rajendran, A south Indian bae with his bollywood counterpart)

BACKGROUND:* I believe TOI is a piece of shit and AIB did a homage and that’s there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXCjwPhoT0. About Deepika’s choice to show her bod and to speak against the TOI’s publication standards, I am completely with her. Its her choice and her terms and TOI did fuck up bad. I have come to respect DP after that. That was no case for double standards. But that was it. The propaganda value she garnered with the aforementioned incident catapulted her way to this video. tsk.. tsk.. regrets! TOI you blatant fuck. This could have easily been Gul Panag’s. Bang up job there TOI.

By now, you readers would have got an idea about who I am and how I view stuffs.. I am a liberal and I friggin want freedom of choice.. If there is one. If you’ve read 1984, I can say you would know what it means to have the illusion of choice. But then.. WTH!

My Observations:This is what I have observed in this 2 minutes (and change) of the brilliantly shot / narrated piece of shit.

Before you go all “white knight – look at me girls, I am a feminist myself – whoa.. this is cool. I’ll share this” on this video. Here are some bites.

This video has nothing to do to with a middle-class or the never been acknowledged lower middle-class or the devoid of our conscious below the poverty line people. Empowerment is more than what you get to wear my people. I have known a girl who can not go to school because her father thought women can’t go to school associating with men and such. I have barely scratched the surface here. I am completely aware of how big a problem women’s rights is, especially in India. Sure freedom of clothing is a symptom but should we fuss so much about treating the symptoms here and letting the disease unnoticed? Politicizing the elitism here will only widen the social class bandwidth and will add more troubles to the earnest who actually need women empowerment. “My girl will become like this if she were to be educated”. See what I mean?

The editor in chief of Vogue USA and the director of the group that publishes Vogue, Anna Wintour, is a narcissistic creature that somehow got through the last 100 years of evolution. This video is a certain echo of her standards. Let me give you an example. The video is interpretive as a woman’s voice to her tormentor, arguably a man right?. The video also asks you to STFU cos bearing a certain size is their choice. Their editor in chief has asked people (Oprah friggin Winfrey) to shed weight to be featured in Vogue. I am fuckin confused man.. I love a lot of people and I hate very few. Of that very few, the creatures that tops the list are the ones with Selective Liberalism. I will be a liberal when it suits me type of people. I guess the validity or the credibility of the video is questioned by the fact it is paid by Vogue. Oh! Ms. Vintouralso stopped a working class flight attendant to be featured in the Vogue’s breast awareness piece and had a businesswoman feature in it. Are you getting this? Having breast cancer and being a woman (Wrong order? :) ) doesn’t qualify you being there in Vogue’s breast cancer awareness article.
You.. The Indian woman who is worried about having a safe and secure public latrine because you can’t weeeeeeee in public as ‘they’ do but still are a Human with metabolic urges.. Vogue Empowers you.. First become elite and then when you don’t give a shit cos you can have a friggin mobile latrine in your limo. Then we will talk about your clothing choices aight?

I am a proponent of “Death of the Author” so let me stop being a (sorta!) hypocrite here. What really grinds my gear and sorta put me in rant mode is that special mention to Adultery. Dude. I get it you went all “The picture of Dorian Gray” in here but Dorian Gray is an old world monster. Please stop! This is too wild for Oscar Wilde himself (Not really!).

Men are objectified just as easily as women as well. Women. You know you check out that ass, “cute” smile and enjoy a free gun show when you can at the same rate as men do, only subtler. We can not wear certain dresses as well. Imagine a man wearing a really short shorts? Would you take it as lightly as you think you will? Being forced into herd with the societal conformity is not just a special reserved seat for women. Of course no one can tell you what to wear and how to wear it. No one can disturb you for what you’re wearing. At the same time, you ought to understand that men has the same reservation too. Yeah we do go shirtless when we can but that comes within a certain level of social scrutiny as well. My point is that there are much pressing issues at work.

Going full elite and disconnected while dealing with sensitive topics such as this is kind of like playing for the opposite team. I for one, can not take people seriously when you are being Vague, Selectively liberal and Elite. But its not about me. A common authoritative male archetype would twist the moral ambiguity in the term “Sex Outside the Marriage” to negate whatever you are trying to do here. No one has freedom to have sex outside the marriage unless it is an “open relationship” (people of facebook; You really need to know what it is before calling yours, an open relationship). No matter what color, creed or the presence of a dick or the lack of it. Just stop selling this bullshit.

I believe the video is intentionally vague. As in, to create dialogue such as this. I dig that. But the vagueness is mildly irritating when it comes to the mention of promiscuity. Are you wanting the freedom to commit adultery or you just concerned about the social comment clause that is attached with it? Being called slut or a whore if I have to be not vague? See that’s how you don’t be vague. I seriously don’t know how to categorize the adultery thing? Is it like a women empowerment thingy or what?

I am not sure how many of you know this. Evolution toggles between monogamy and polygamy to suit its needs. You know why dogs gets stuck after doing the deed? Evolution baby. Monogamy is sorta like our equivalent. I wouldn’t care the life history of the girl I am married with. But I definitely want her to be mine, and I hers, post marriage. There are several other relationship criteria and a specially stitched “open relationship” thing to propose otherwise.

This whole thing becomes a fuckin charade when there is a sect of women who had to walk miles to find places devoid of prying eyes cos she too needs to get rid of her bodily waste, or a place to bath and her family can not afford a latrine in their own house. Who is going to star in a video about that? Who is going to share that? Who can tell their story without having a bullshit “white savior guy saves an uncultured barbarians / slumdog millionaire” agenda behind it?

Last word: This video is manufactured as Deepika Padukone’s message rather than our Homie’s. When you understand why I haven’t made a fuss about it, You have silted the difference between a feminist and a hypocrite. Cheers to the women in my life. You all know how much I love you and respect you.

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Charlie Hebdo is a french satirical magazine that attacks dogma or anything that it likes or dislikes. What is permissible to print is not even a question. Freedom of speech is an important pillar of a democracy. I believe in democracy. Let us put the emotions to rest and have a rationale at this massacre that happened in France.

> A cartoon disrespects a faith system and that is provocative.

>> It should be retaliated with a dialog or another cartoon; something communicative. Not murder.

> My faith is with democracy, freedom of speech and against killing a fellow human being and my faith system is violated.

>> What should I do if there is a provocation against my faith? See the problem here?

If a cartoon is provocative and is tantamount to a massacre; what does a massacre equates to?

There is one thing I learned that I am proud of. To respect a human who has a different opinion.. To have an argument about the ideas without hating or insulting the bearer..

A personal note:
I am proud of my mother tongue and my regional culture. Very proud. I have read a lot of Tamil literature; A lot more than anyone else I have personally met. If I were to be given a choice of being born again and If I get to choose who I am gonna be; I’d wanna be a Tamil. All over.
If there is a second choice at all, it would be french. Its the language and their culture. It is as liberal as an established country can ever get. It is in their blood to be free and embrace humanity. To lead humanity. France led the world to a new order since 18th century and it continues to inspire the western world. I hope this incident doesn’t changes that. Sadly, the irony of this post is the link that I have given above. It is written by a french philosopher and it can be summarized as “A creation should be treated as an independent entity from its creator”. Too bad some of us haven’t heard this message in 48 years.
A word to my friends. If you can not agree to the point that you and I have the absolute freedom to do what we want and say what we want; Fuck off… As in unfriend or unfollow or whatever that will put us on our own ways.

You don’t have to agree to what I am saying. But you have to agree that I have the freedom to say whatever I want to say. If you can’t accept that; then it is one of those things that constitutes terrorism.

We can have an open discussion about this. I will not disrespect you for having a different set of beliefs. I expect you to do the same.

piece de resistance: Muslim brethren. Please know that France is the country among UN security council that genuinely backs up Palestine. To choose not to speak up now is a symptom of a greater problem.

P.S: This applies to every self-righteous prick. Doesn’t matter if you want to ban a book that reviews Gandhi or to kill Salman Rushdie.

Before we get started:
I am the dude who reads Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman without any purpose. I will have deadlines to meet and I will be reading Stephen Hawking’s report on black hole information, in detail. I watch a child trying to turn for the first time and I think about the physics intuition the animal kingdom seems to have. The energy transformations, the order, the math of it; the whole package.

Interstellar is the best science fiction that there ever was. That includes 2001: A space odyssey, Matrix and everything else that deems to be fit as a sci-fi. Did I include “The Foundation” series? Well now I did.
While Stanley Kubrick recorded the fictitious surreal future with his intellectual brilliance, Christopher Nolan created a universe based on an actual known universe. As if Neil deGrasse Tyson sat down with Stephen Hawking, both of them were smoking weed and trying to predict a future for the mankind, and Nolan was there to record the conversation. You might think Kip Thorne (The CIT dude who helped Nolans with the script) is not that famous as compared to the superstars of the physics world namely, Einstein – Hawking – Feynman – Neil. Kip Thorne is big deal. Here is a photographical excerpt from “The theory of everything” – Stephen Hawking. (Dummy alert: TOE =! The movie TOE).

Excerpt from Stephen Hawking’s The Theory of Everything

Everything that was shown on screen was either a proven fact of Physics or a hypothesis that hasn’t been disproved yet. In fact there was only one assumption made, through out this 3 hours of advanced physics class. That happens to be the assumption based on a Stephen Hawking paper about information not being lost inside black hole. Time for some physics y’all.

Time: Why the astronaut in space ages slower than the humans in earth?

Alright. Let’s summarize big bang here. An event, cosmic event, where out of nowhere, a supermassive explosion takes place. The explosion has so much energy that it expands and occupies something undefined. The occupied space now is our universe. A borrowed analogy could be a balloon. Our universe is like a balloon now. No ending.. No beginning. Just the ends connected to each other, 3 dimensionally. It is normal to imagine the explosion taking place in a massive scale as huge as the big bang has an expansion to the sides, 2-dimensionally. Just one thing though. What was the big bang expanding into? What was there before big bang? We have to pull a George Orwell here. Doublethink. The universe, from the big bang, expanded into nothingness.

The nothingness is undefinable because everything that we know about the laws of nature and math are obsolete before the big bang. If that is an idea so hard to wrap your head around; pray, the big bang with that particular expansion rate, is the only expansion rate, the universe would have sustained. Prayer number 2: There is this Quantum Entanglement. Which is a fancy word for saying everything in this universe is coupled with one other thing. Kinda like I am interdimensionally connected to something else and whatever affects me, affects the other. All you romanticists can blow your horns about finding your interdimensionally connected significant other but the “I” I used was just metaphorical. That “I” could be one single atom in me for all intents and purports.

The Time is a humanly construct. The measurement of Time, you know the cesium-133 atomic vibration and all? Forget it. There is no absolute time inTOR.An experiment in 1962 with two standardized atomic clocks kept in the top and bottom of a water tower measured time differently; the clock at the bottom of the tower was slower. As gravity changes, the time changes. Let’s look at it this way. Ever since the big bang, the universe is expanding in a rate. However, this expansion is not of the same values (I don’t know if I can use the term ‘constant’) as there are regions in universe where gravity is stronger. Rehash this idea. The space(x,y,z) and time(t) is created at the point of singularity. They have been expanding (expansion : forward arrow) ever since and there are regions in space and time where gravitational force influences this expansion rate resulting in specific regions of space-time to be more curved than the rest of the regions.

A very good friend of mine raised questions about gravity. If gravity does this to space-time, what makes the gravity to do so? The thing is, there was only one person who could have explained gravity and the origins of this mysterious force. Einstein. He said something in the lines of Gravity not being a force but the actual nature of space-time. Remember the balloon example? What happens when you start rolling your fingers from a point A? Let’s imagine that you start traveling (your finger starts rolling) from point ‘A’ in that balloon at a time t-> 0. For all the values of t > 0, you are traveling towards the point ‘A’. Got it?You always travel towards the point ‘A’, regardless of the path that you might take.

I can never wrap my head around this idea. So this space-time expands into nothing and there is a energy – matter interaction (Oh did you read my article on Higg’s boson?) mechanism that spews matter out of this immense energy inside this space-time continuum. Now this matter collides on itself(due to gravity) to become gas clouds – stars – blackholes; and the blackholes bend space-time around them.

// Blog will be updated soon. Work calls //

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The outbreak shames the scientific society. All of us, the doctors, engineers and scientists; can delude ourselves to take pride in what we do. That the product of what we do helps people. To think about the fact that whatever you are doing is always measured, thereby controlled by someone in terms of wealth and not by the advancement and improvement of human society, suggests quite the contrary.

J.C. Bose said that he won’t patent his inventions because patents will only appeal to someone wealthy to invest only to harvest more wealth and that he wanted his work for the benefits of the whole human society.

It is sad how he ended up in the shadows while thieves who managed to spin a stolen scientific invention has their legacy sealed by giant corporations. i.e Bell labs.

Aaron Swartz’s death did not bring any change to the way science works. Inventions in computer science and physical sciences are already taking up the open science platform making a real difference in the world of science and engineering that shapes up humanity. Open learning platforms like coursera, codeacademy and mit ocw are opening up knowledge channels that are previously reserved for a certain group of people. If someone breaks through such reservations, it was only through their sheer intellect. The transcendence of such an individual through layers of society was only an upward mobility. What that is, is a segregation algorithm that puts barriers across the layers of society and the upward mobility only helps to keep the structure of this social segregation process intact.

It may work fine but see what outbreaks like Ebola can do to such society. There wasn’t any headlines, not this much, up until the disease was confined within the borders of Africa. As if the humans living there deserve less than what we can have here. I am not talking about just the USA. Observe the world’s reaction to Ebola before and after it reached the shores of the first world. This is what I mean by social segregation. The way we are conditioned to look at a fellow human and judge what he can have and what he can not have.

Open Science:
As I said earlier, computer science and physical science is promoting the open science platform. What about biological sciences? Most of the bio-research facilities are owned by governments that are very keen about protecting the information acquired and pharmaceuticals that are only interested in the monetary value of the research. This creates a very specific environment that often shapes up the personality of the individuals associated with the industry.

The comments of the Nobel Laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is very different from his contemporaries in Computer Science and Physical sciences. You can see his interests in protecting the medical industrial complex behind his supposed scientific comments. I don’t see such negligent comments from an AI researcher say Andrew Ng of Stanford.

This brings us to my point. The overall morale of a society is often screwed up. An average scientist’s morale is compromised by his investor’s idea of morale. A society is a spectra of personalities and what you consider as normal behavior is just the mean value of this spectra. It may still be cruel which will only bite the society in its back. A sort of correcting mechanism, I might cruelly say. It is time for us to think for ourselves. As the men and women of science, technology and medicine; we may have to redraw the lines of our morale, individually. In my humble opinion, Open Science is a way to start this wake. Honestly, I don’t believe the combined ability of our mental prowess would be outwitted by a microbe, any microbe.

On the other hand, think about where this society, in its current path might lead to. Only the wealthy will lead a healthy life while the rest of the society is condemned to rot. I am not pleased with that future.

p.s: I am not saying the open science movement is ignored by the bio-chem, medicine community. I am saying they should have been the leaders of this movement.
P.P.S: please take a look at the #Ebola tags in twitter. See how it flares up only after the patient zero in America dies and other 2 cases reported. Now twitter is a far better place than our media so just imagine how general public’s reactions are before Ebola reached here and after Ebola reached here.. https://i.imgur.com/9rEZVhJ.gif

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Its a complex psychological process. Generally, people project their dreams or their emotions upon someone else and then create this morbid relationship with them. It happens to everyone at some point. Its a part of psychological development. A self identification process. Then the self realization draws the boundaries as to where the ego lies and where the self exists. The problem is that us Indians become emotionally invested in this someone else and then it becomes this whole other behavioral characteristic which can only be expressed by what I regard as a deity complex.

God complex:

By god complex I mean a high functioning psychopath. Ray Pensador of dailykos describes the high-functioning psychopaths as follows. “characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness; high functioning psychopaths tend to rule the world. They rise to the highest levels of power in politics, and business”.
Most of the high functioning psychopaths are achievers and are generally the top dogs such as a senior police / military official, dean of medicine, CEO etc.. See how all these positions has the power to make or break someone? That’s what that attracts a high functioning psychopath.
Now mostly these people are responsible for ensuring our survival as a species but they also have no remorse or empathy towards other people in their wake. They could be ruthless and have no remorse and morale, and be indifferent to another human’s suffering.

Self :

Carl G. Jung identifies this as a process in a 4 stage self realization. In any great hero sagas (written or played), you could observe 4 basic elements to a degree.

* A young, high potential, egoistic young man.

* Meets a humiliation or sustains a loss. Then meets a guru or a spiritual guide or a master (and trains under him.) It could be his father as well.

* Somehow he is no longer bound to the master figure. (death of the master, betrayal, awakening from false virtues). The hero now fights to prevail, often killing the villain.

* He is a hero now. But the biggest feat is to fight his ego and to become more of an empathized individual which means he not only kills the villain but everything the villain is made of. This is the becoming.

If you are observant enough, you could see this process happening within you, often at a microscopic level.

In pop culure, there is Neo in Matrix, Skywalkers in Star Wars Jaden Smith in After Earth, Rajinikanth in Annamalai or Sivaji (you name it).
This 4 stages of the becoming can better understood by comparing the process with the antagonists in Star Wars, Man of Tai Chi, Ong Bak, Batman Begins, Superman, Tron legacy, Ninja Assassin or Constantine.. take your pick.

By analogy, high functioning psychopaths could be described as a set of people who are often stuck in the third part of the self realization cycle.

Now that we know how the self identification process works, lets move on to the topic.

Deity Complex: (This is completely my observation and I could very well be wrong.)

As opposed to the god complex, us Indians suffer from Deity complex. Having been stuck in the second part of the self realization process, our emotional quotient often identifies itself with someone else, fictional or not, and becomes entangled.

This often happens because of our social structure. A father can almost never let go of his control over the son and a son is often bound by principles to not to go against his father. Son doesn’t move out of the family as soon as he is able to. It often happens after he is married and that is way too late and way too committal to go through the rest of the self identification process. Times may be changing now as an average Indian starts earning at 21 and moves out of the family to work for a corporate. The trick here is that, there is usually another authoritative figure, a manager perhaps, who would continue to play the part of the father hindering the psychological development of his wards.

Let me explain. Compare corporate life to the self identification process Carl Jung has described. The master (manager) is supposed to help the student to get into touch with his inner self and to help him develop his skills, techniques and ideology so someday he becomes independent. That is moving on to the third part. That also means providing room for mistakes and encouraging the ward to take more responsibilities, explore new methods and allow self-teaching, provided that he is right on top of the learning curve. Now we know what an average Indian manager would do.

This is often not the case with an American individual. The family ties never hinders him to do what he wants.. it doesn’t warrants him to shut up even if he knows the father is wrong. This sets up a foundation for what follows next. Americans often speak up against authority to do what they deem right and are encouraged to take risks with or without assessments. The result is an uninterrupted flow of the self identification process which often yields a leader or a hero. Meanwhile our social structure often stops us at level 2 or level 3 promoting a huge population of listeners not leaders.

Effects of deity complex:

So remember how the self identification process messes up and we end up identifying ourselves with the heroes, fiction or not? For some of us, it is lord Anjaneya, viz a viz Rajinikanth, Modi, [insert: any hero]. Almost all the Indian literature and myth is about praising the heroic figure and somehow it has contributed in culturing the deity complex. We developed a pathological need to celebrate this someone else beyond rationale. It has become necessary for us to raise these individuals to a godly level and give them a status so sacred that he or she can get away with almost anything.
Remember Salman Khan’s charges? There was at least hundreds of thousands of people who taught Salman Khan should not be jailed even when they knew for a fact he did kill someone in a drunk and drive stupor. Some people even tried to rationalize it by showcasing the “Being Human” initiative, which is a pathetic PR technique that would shame goebbels’ techniques in propaganda.

IMHO, when you hear about an individual who self-immolated himself to death because Actor Vijay’s movie has trouble releasing, you know this has gone too far.

A more common example:

We all know someone who can not handle criticisms against Rajinikanth, Modi, Sachin Tendulkar or Lord Ram. It is actually their ego defending an attack on themselves. Their self-identification has entangled itself with their heroes so bad that an attack against their heroes passes as an attack on themselves. What happens when someone is injured? They either break down or attack back. These attacks sometime ends up in fans killing each other.

//Personally, I would consider this as evolution’s trick to check itself from being counterproductive. Evolution would have woke up one day thinking, “Whoa.. I somehow missed to weed out a gene and now this bunch of people are bringing down the mean IQ of the world’s population parallel to the x axis. Let me fix it.” Later that day two different fan clubs take out each other.//

I feel the most important problem India will be facing in this generation would be the deity complex that I have described here.

Understanding the self and ego is more of a social problem rather than a personal problem. In a society where anything or anyone unconventional is attacked viciously, there could only be a small proportion of people who can risk it all anyway.

If the situation should change, when a son could defy his father to follow his dreams and still continues to get love and support; when a student could challenge a professor over a scientific process or ideology and still continues to get unbiased academic attention and benefits; when a junior engineer could defy his manager over adapting a new technology and still continues to get promotions and salary bumps as same as everyone; then there lies a society where leaders will not be butchered but nurtured.